Story+1973-03-02+Berkeley,+CA

”This is a song for Friday nights.....”
 * 02.03.73 Berkeley, CA, intro to ‘Spirit in the Night’**

”This a song about uh....running away to, uh....join the police force....boys ready ?.... ah, this is Danny, plays accordion.....I found him playing in the audience of Lawrence Welks’Show.....a (?) protege...(?)....”
 * 02.03.73 Berkeley, CA, intro to ‘Circus Song’**

”That’s the Mexican rhythm section....ah....gonna do a song now about a bishop, his wife and a violin player in West Virginia....how they lost their daughter to mathematics while on a business trip in Detroit....’bout James Garner.....during his well-known, very popular stint....as a .....TV’s, uh, very own Maverick.....uh....did have an affair with and married a woman who, uh....had only one eye....operating at any given time... ‘bout a little boy, says the indians are still in the woods, only nobody sees ‘em....’bout the sexual pathos of elderly choirboys in Puke, Montana.....”
 * 02.03.73 Berkeley, CA, intro to ‘Bishop Dance’**

”Song about New York City....82nd Street bus....”
 * 02.03.73 Berkeley, CA, intro to ‘Does This Bus Stop at the 82nd Street ?’**

”We, uh....now come....to the very, uh.....avantgarde portion of our show here....( a short and very strange ”musical” break) that’s pretty much it, uh (chuckles)....”
 * 02.03.73 Berkeley, CA, middle of ‘Thundercrack’**

//Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi//